By John Demartini
Certainty is a product of self worth and whoever has the most certainty leads the game and creates the rules in life. People are inherently attracted to the certainty and confidence that self worth brings and as a result those with high levels of self worth never need to worry about lack of wealth or opportunity.
Imagine you´re interviewing two people for a job. Both have similar qualifications and education, and even similar number of years of experience, but one demonstrates a greater degree of certainty than the other.
As I am sure you will agree, the one who demonstrates the most certainty will have the highest probability of accomplishing more in life and becoming the leader. Who would you employ?
In reality if you don´t believe that you´re worthy of giving yourself love, you won´t believe you´re worthy of giving yourself wealth. Strange as it may seem, a key to having great wealth is having great love and appreciation for yourself.
I gave a talk on self-worth and inborn genius about 15 years ago, and a lady came up to me afterwards and said: "Dr. Demartini, I loved your speech. I´m a meeting planner, and I could arrange a series of speaking engagements for you if you´re interested."
Of course I said, "Great, let´s do it." Two weeks later she called me to say: "I´ve got a real estate convention that wants you to inspire them to be more successful," and she gave me the time and place. I met her at the convention hall about 30 minutes before I was due to speak, and she said to me: "There´s one thing I want to make sure of before you begin. Please don´t get up there and repeat that ‘I am a genius thing´ you say."
"Oh, why not?", I asked. "Because they´ll think you´re on an ego trip. Just promise me you won´t say it. I have big plans for our business, and that would really mess things up."
I smiled at her and said, "I´ll do what will inspire them, don´t worry about that."
When I got up on the platform, the first thing I did was have everybody in the room say in unison: "I am a genius and I apply my wisdom." I could see her off in the corner of the room with her face in her hands, slowly shaking her head from side to side as if to say, oh my God, he´s really blown it now. I happened to be on fire that day and got a standing ovation.
Afterwards she said: "Well, you pulled it off. We squeaked through, but we have to make sure we don´t do it again."
I said to her: "I prefer not to work with such constraints on the truth." The truth is that every conscious person has deep within him or her, a wise genius.
The main reason she had difficulty with my affirmation was because she wasn´t willing to acknowledge her own genius. The group was fine – they loved it because people inherently know the truth of their greatness, and we all have a part that loves to be reminded of it from time to time. You´re a genius if you choose to acknowledge and act on it, and the world will treat you exactly the way you treat yourself. That lady was not yet ready to acknowledge her own genius and immortal nature, so she was limiting her influence and ability to reach the people she would have loved to associate with.
